I'm nuts

Lord help me, I've rediscovered the joy of EMS scanners. I spent yesterday happily coding away while listening to all the crazy stuff going on. If only I was out in it!

Life is insane. Work is nuts (it's the blind leading the blind, my boss is having me help the rest of the team code, and I'm thinking, "Yeah like that's going to help, I'm lousy at this stuff"). And then I have drumming, bellydance, working on the house, writing, trying to cram in weightlifting, the occasional Guild Wars, and of course spending time with the family. We got custody of my stepson for now so there has been a tiny bit of adjusting to having a 16 year old living with us, but it's been good. He's the most awesome teenager ever so that helps. He's learning to drive. Also, my husband's band has a show tonight, and the rest of the weekend is booked. I think every weekend is booked. Maybe next weekend I'll try to find some time to play the XBox 360 - I think it's calling my name. Although I may just go play the good ol' xbox. And I have this bad urge to take up drawing again. I guess it's no wonder I haven't had time to hike or race or go offroading. :P But we have taken up riding our bikes again more recently, although the onset of the cold makes that a little harder.

We're putting in granite countertops, and since we're doing them ourselves we're hand polishing the edge of each tile. Yes, this is painful. I usually sit around doing it while watching TV.

At work, we have a wacky coding deadline next week, and I'm not the strongest of coders anyway. I'm actually kicking butt on the coding, but I'm also trying to help others with
their code, and that's a little hard as I'm learning as I go a lot, too. It's fun in a sick sort of way.

Winter is on the way already; we've already had one windstorm that knocked the power out. Thankfully, we bought a generator last time this happened, so while most people sat in the dark, our little corner of neighborhood had 3 generators going. Four extension cords later we had the fridge, freezer, a lamp, and the entire entertainment center running. Hey, I may not have power, but I have Xbox 360 and cable. :)

I'll be 30 in about a week and a half. Best part about 30 is that I feel awesome. Life is awesome. :D I work at a company where the product I help develop is used by SO many
people, and I get to help make it great. I get to do most of the stuff I love. How can you go wrong with that? And I may even get in good shape again soon (drummergirl SMASH). I'm convinced I'm going to finish a novel one of these days and I'm seriously contemplating trying to pitch a TV show. I'm completely insane, but I like that I don't stop dreaming as I "grow up". What the heck is growing up, anyway?

I'm having to learn to drum Limelight by Rush. This is a little painful right now; Neil Peart is a drumming god, and the switching around in and out of different timings is really strange for me still. 4/4 to 3/4 to 6/8 to 2/4 ect. It's awesome fun, though. I'm up to three drum kits. I think it's time to sell one. I like having a digital kit, but I only need one acoustic and I have 2 (I couldn't help myself waah). And at the moment we're in this place like sardines in a can and I can only have one kit at a time up anyway.